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J. Roddy Walston & The Business, 12th and Porter, 10/8
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If you aren’t a fan of J. Roddy Walston & The Business, then you are probably getting tired of hearing me talk about them. I was excited about them before Bonnaroo, and then they thoroughly blew me away during their set at Bonnaroo. I was so excited that I started stalking them, and found…
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Delicate Steve, The Basement, July 22
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Delicate Steve (a.k.a. Steve Marion) is an enigma who is described in his press release as a 40 piece multi-instumentalist, who sounds like My Bloody Valentine without the guitars, and is destined to be a wordless, new jersey, U2. NPR did a great story about unraveling the truly hysterical and totally fake press release…
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Way to drop a 4:20 bomb!!!
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So, FILTER, Mercy Lounge, Cannery Ballroom, and Toyota (I think they are in there too), just dropped a free concert announcement bomb. Saturday, August 20th from 6pm to midnight, you can head over to the parking lot outside Mercy/Cannery for free (let me repeat that last part, FREE) for a block party featuring Delta…
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The Zoltars, Free at Grimey’s, 6pm, July 20
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Austin-based rock band The Zoltars are on their first tour right now, and they will be in Nashville today (7/20) playing FOR FREE at Grimey’s Record Store at 6pm. These guys are another perfect example of the psychadelic rock that is brewing out of Texas these days. What else do you have to do…
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Lera Lynn
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My Old Kentucky Blog tipped me off about Lera Lynn and her amazing covers. Lera is an Athens Georgia based singer songwriter that was formerly the voice of the folk-pop band Birds and Wire. Lera just released her debut album, Have You Met Lera Lynn?, and she will be in Nashville to perform at…
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tUnE-yArDs @ Exit/in on 9/30
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We talked about Merrill Garbus’ ransom note spelled musical project tUnE-yArDs back when we were talking about Thao and Mirah. Well, multi-instrumentalist Merrill is taking her show on the road in support of her second record, w h o k i l l, and she will be rolling through Nashville with a stop at…
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Mona’s new Daytrotter session
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Do you know about Nashville’s own Mona? Well, if the predictions are correct, you are going to know about them very soon. Mona is blowing up in the UK right now. They were long listed in the BBC’s Sound of 2011 poll (a UK poll of bands that are about to get huge). Past…
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Nirvana tributes and Deervana
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This is the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s historic Nevermind album (damn, I feel old). Lots of tributes and concerts are going on to commemorate, and probably the best tribute mix is the one that Spin Magazine will be releasing tomorrow for free. The Spin tribute includes covers by Meat Puppets, Vaselines, Telekinesis, JEFF the…
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Toro y Moi, The End, 7/16
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Chillwave indie-pop funkster Toro y Moi (a.k.a. Chazwick Bundick) is all the rage across the internet these days. With the upcoming release of another EP, Freaking Out, to follow up his second LP, Underneath The Pine, released in February 2011, multi-instrumentalist Chaz (Can I call you Chaz? what’s that? oh, you didn’t answer, so…